Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mungo, Bromfield

St Mungo, Bromfield

St Mungo's Church

Bromfield Church

locality:-

Bromfield

civil parish:-

Bromfield (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY17584703

1Km square:-

NY1747

10Km square:-

NY14

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BPI43.jpg (taken 14.6.2008)
photograph

CGY52.jpg (taken 5.1.2017)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 28 10)
placename:- St Mungo's Church

source data:-

Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"St. Mungo's Church (Vicarage) / Grave Yard"

evidence:-

old map:- Nurse 1918

source data:-

Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 2nd edn 1939.

NUR1NY14.jpg
"BROMFIELD"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

CGY42.jpg (taken 15.12.2017)

stained glass

stained glass - coats of arms

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Church of St Mungo

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MUNGO / / / BROMFIELD / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / I / 410437 / NY1758147036"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. C12-C14, with restorations of 1861-2, 1893-4 and 1926. Coursed red sandstone rubble, under sandstone slate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 2-bay nave with north aisle, south porch, north vestry, gabled twin west bellcote and medieval east bellcote for angelus bell. 2-bay chancel with side chapels and lean-to north hearse house, unusually attached to the church. Nave has one south trefoil-headed window, all others are C19 and 2-light. Old studded plank door under reused zigzag Norman arch within C19 porch. Chancel has priest's door and C15 2-light window in double-chamfered surround. C19 3-light east window. South chapel has unusual bar-tracery C13 2-light window, but the chapel is thought to have been built in 1395. North chapel has C19 window. Interior of porch has 11 fragments of medieval cross and graveslabs. Interior of nave has 3-bay arcade on round columns with vertical strips. 4 medieval graveslabs attached to west wall. C12 font on hexagonal stem. C19 pews are lettered FREE. Transitional chancel arch on responds with corbels. Piscina in south wall. C19 carved communion rail and altar screen. Aumbreys flank altar. Various C18 and C19 wall plaques; one in recess to Reverend Richard Garth of 1673 with long inscription; and another recess filled with marble sculpture of twin sons of George Dixon, 1838. South St George's Chapel was a chantry chapel, suppressed in 1546, left roofless from 1753 and walled off from chancel, but restored as 1914-18 war memorial. C18 Royal arms. Various C18 and Cl9 wall plaques. North Lady Chapel, now Crookdake Chapel has recessed graveslab to Adam de Crookdake, 1304 under later inscription. C19 wall plaques to members of Ballantine-Dykes family. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian &Archaeological Society, new series, xxxvi, pp.204-5 and church guide."

memorials etc.

evidence:-

old print:- Calverley 1899
item:- cross

source data:-

Churchyard, south side:-

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CV1062.jpg
In the porch:-

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CV1063.jpg
Lithographs by W S Calverley.
In the wall of the tool shed at the vicarage:-

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CV1064.jpg
Sketch by W G Collingwood.
item:- JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page

cross slabs

incumbents:-

Aile, Ralfe de	1302 -
Southwerk, William de
Otrington, William de	1330 -
Whitelaw, Hugh de
Kirkoswald, Roger de	1344 -
Culwen, John de	1377 -
King, John
Clifton, John	1535 -
Corry, John	1562 -
Laythes	1564 -
Dean, Nicholas	1589 -
Beck, Peter	1602 -
Grainger, William	1648 -
Garth, Richard	1663 -
Sill, William	1673 -
Child, John	1681 -
Procter, John	1692 -
Rothery, Joseph	1714 -
Wikinson, Jeremiah	1717 -
Yates, Obadiah	1752 -
Raincock, William	1765 -
Denton, Isaac	1784 -
Fletcher, Walter	1799 -
Wybergh, Christopher Hilton	1826 -
Taylor, Richard	1876 -